Self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file



0 P 1943- J. T. QUIGLEY 2,330,007

. SELF-LABELING VISIBLY INDEXED JACKET FILE Filed July 24. 1942 EISSPACEAVAILABLE I'ZR /?ECORD) #55 34 l/ \I O0 O0 A Jim anion 34 JMIYTQI -lL-r Patented Sept. 21, 1943 UNiT-Ep STATE SELF-LABELING v1 5 mmww:

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John nouigley,tes'angeiesficai f; l Applic'ationgluly 24, 1942, SerialNo. 452,182 a w 18 Claims. (ci. 129+1c) This invention relates to a jacket file in which the visible indices are self-labeling. Speaking more specifically the invention per t i s to the provision of a file consisting of a multiple of separable jacket-holding means adapted to be removably assembled in containers in such'a manner as to permit visible exposure of the entire group of indexed upperends of the panels so assembled. I It is an object of this invention to improve upon means for indexing and filing document or written or printed data by providing, in conjunction with a'novel mounting means therefor, a com-- bined record bearer and document container consisting ofa jacket or casing quadrangular in cross section with open ends, there being space upon its outer surface for the reception of written lines and space within its interior for containing removable sheets and cards. i 7

Another object of the invention is the provi-. sion for'supporting the aforesaid jackets, a panel specially constructed with a view to supporting the jackets in an improved manner, said panel consisting of a base plate carrying longitudinally extending rods on which said jackets are slidably mounted in a detachable manner, the assembling of the labeled jackets uponsaid panel by means of said rods resulting in the alinement of the plane of the combined exterior label holding sur faces of the tops of said jackets within a plane adjacent to and parallel with the face of the supporting-panel, thus bringing said index lines into a visible, readable position in relation to an observer of the face of the panel. v

A further object'of the invention is attained by combining the labeled jackets and the rods which support them in such a manner that the uppermost jacket of each panel, upon being moved upwardly tov the limit of its travel, is automatically deflected upwardly and backwardly and then is stopped in a position whereinthe plane ofthe exterior label-holding surfaceof said uppermost jacket is thereafter held at a right angle to the-plane of the supporting panel and in a position wherein the index line of said jacket overlies the top end of the panel in a visible; readable, position.

Still another object of the invention relates to providing in the walls of the individual data-containing jackets, windows throughv'vhich are displayed colors,4thereby affording an additional.index as to the contents of the jackets. j

In the accompanying drawing is shown a mounting means for the jackets whichresembles in some respects'the sheetmountinglmeans shown in my 'co-pending' application Ser. No: 431,097,

filedFbruar y-16, 1942, now Patent No.- 2,324,537.

dated July 20; 1943. I I --1 With the I foregoing and other objects in view,

I the inven'tion resides in the 'novel'arrangement and co'mbinationof-parts'and inthe details of construction hereinafter-described and claimed-it being understood that changes in the precise em-- bodiment of the inventio'n =herein disclosed :may be made within the scope of: that whichis claimed without departingfromthe spirit of the inven.- tion 2 i. -13. i

- Referring to theaccomp'anying drawing, whichillustrates what is at present deemed to-be a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig 1 is a perspective view ofthe self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file; a corner portion of some of the jackets and inserts beingrbroken away in order toprovideextra drawingspac on t vsheetk e 1 Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the structure shown'in Fig. 1, theplane' of section being set on thelineZ-lofFig. -1. 1,1.-

Fig. 3 is'afragmentaryl transverse section taken online 3'-3 ofFig. 1..="z;. .7; 4 j j Figi l is a transverse sectiontaken on line t-t Fig. 5 is a face 'view of-the-iacket perse in'its eXten-ded'position.=- I a Fig. 6 is a transverse s ction'similar. t'o Fig.-3, illustrating :a' modifiedlocking mea'nswhen wider files are employed.'-.

Referring in detail to ingbaseiior back panel 5',- said panel performing the function of a slide, which is desirably made of cardboard and should be ofv a sufficiently stiff character to support in a'depen-dable'manner the parts mounted upontit. ln the drawing. said panel is shown as an elongated,-vrectangular sheet 5 having-along each sideedge aforwardly direc ;ted c(as viewed in Fig.1). integral flange '6 or..:

In Figs. 1 and 2 there are shownsupported upon said panel, bymeans of parallel, spaced apart, resilient wire runs 8 and:9,.three groups or packs of data-containing :jackets, namely, an upper pack H,. middle pack IZand lower=pack l3. II'o aid: in; keeping said -.wire:.runs in place holes I5 are made through the panel spacedconsiderably down from its top and said wire runs 8 and 9 are:each provided with a short backwardly directed run lfizwhich.passes throughone'of said holes opposite to it; these runsbeing united by I the drawing, thesupport ing structurexof thede'vice'includes an'upstandlength portion of the wire considered as a whole.

At the lower end of the device each of said wire runs 8 and 9 has its extremity 2| directed upwardly back of the panel and then bent forwardly upon the adjacent part of the wire so as to grip the lower edge of the panel, the panel preferably being noted to receive the bent part of each of the runs 8 and 9, These runs may be made of narrow strips of suitable material other than metal, but wire is at present dteined pre fe rfazb'le.

The aforesaid three packs l'l, l2 and I3 "are made up of individual jackets 25 of bendable yet suificiently stiff sheet material to hold its shape when subjected to but sligh t stress, can lia ck et assuming a shape quadrangular in cross section when in an unstressed condition asshown in the jackets of the middle pack I2. path of rinse jackets is, by preference and as shown, inside of a single sheet of elongated rectangular material 27, shown in the extended condition it '5.

As seen in this view the sheet has-paired parallel uppercreasing lines a 8, *likerniddle -15 old lines 29, and like lower crease lines 30, these six told lines being utiliza-ble infielding each sheet into the 'opemended jacket shown in end elevation, for example, in the upper portion of Fig. -2.

Between the crease lines 228 each jacket sheet has through it an inner pair of circular holes '3! and an outer pair of circular holes 32, the diameters of all these holes being the ?same 'a the space between the fold lines '28, thusproviding 5a row of four symmetrically arranged holes which extends transversely of the sheet 2'l, -Alike row of holes 3'3, 64 is provided between the fold-lines 30. When the jackets arecompleted -by 'adhening'their endfiaps 3 5 and 36 :in place as shown in Fig. 2, ho1es -3I register with holes '33 and holes 32 with holes %4.

Each of the completed jackets 'has fed through its holes 3| and 33 one of a series of binding members :0 consisting of springy material yet sufiiciently rigid to releasably 'fasten the [jackets in place by having their endspdrtions disposed in an interlocked relation :to the wire rials 8 and 9, as well shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Any ja-cket thus attached to ,said wire 'ru'ns may readily be removed by moving it along the wires to a 'spaced relationto the-othenjackets andthen, by 31 turning movement, disengaging the ends 0f its bindingy strip from the wire runs -8 and 9,

When-it'is desired to-secure the jackets 1:0 the panel in a more permanent manner, as -is :necessary with wider panels, the bindi-ng strip 40 of the jacket to be attached is fed through all :four. of the alined holes prov-idedrfor it "in 'the com"- pleted jacket and is at the same time brought into an underlying, interlocked relation to both the wire runs Band '9, as shown in Fi'gu6. This is readily accomplished because the holes 'see Fig.'6) 3|='33 and'flfl come at opposite sides of each wire run and aresufficently far 'apart to allow the binding strip -to underlie thedrltervem ing deflected portions 37 of the jacket wall, as shown in this view.

'Owing to the-overlapping of the end flaps '85, 36 in relation to adjacent wall mentions of the completed 'jacket's-a double, reinforced 'jacketwa'll results where the material isiplaced under addition'al strain "by beingdefiected by the biiidiri'g strips, hence the-durability-cf eaehijaoket fs tlius prolonged.

In-the -fa'ce and edge :portions 'of certain 'of the completed jackets, 'as=seen'-in Fig. it, 'are iprovidedcircular windows WI and 42 wherethrough appear colored areas upoh a'contained indicator sheet, further indicating the character of the indexed material.

As shown in Fig. 2 the lower jacket of the pack l2 contains a sheet 43 having a colored outer part 44 which is angularly deflected to cause it to underlie the color display window 42 (Fig. 1). Variously colored sheets may be inserted into other jackets, as indicated by con ventional color-indicating shading in the color windows 41. -A 'code of colofcintbiriat'ions can be used as an aid to the observer to determine at a glance the contents of a given jacket.

Both the front and back of the completed jackets '25 da riy observable recorded data. The inatter 2510 on the upper face of the middle pack of Fig. 1 is in plain view, and the matter 25$ an the reverse side of the upswung jacket 25 at the top of the view is also clearly readable.

Each attached jacket has a flat, rectangular smrace along its free edge, the width of said surface being'equal to -the thickness of the fi-lled jacket. Upon this surface is inscribed an irrdex-ing line -45 designative of the 'contents of the jacket. This index line is clearly readable whether the jackets are in a pendant, collapsed position as shown in the lower ,pack 13 inF igs, l and -2, or when positioned in a horizontal manner as in the-central,filled pack 4-2, ;or when deflected upwardly as in the pack l t. It will ;readily be seen that this occurs as a result of the parallelogram formed by the four walls of -the open-ended jackets, and that the jacket, when swingably attached to an-upstanding panel, will always maintainin a vertical, readable position the index line '45 throughout all angular adjustmen-ts -to which the jacket may be swung.

Gards, sheets of paper, etc; may readily be inserted into each jacket because it 'has -op en ends which are entirely unobstructed before the jacket is attached to the panel. @r, even while a jacket'remains attached in the manner shown in Figs, '3 and 4, owing to the springiness off/its binding strip @0 together with the resiliency of the retaining rods and panel it may, without -detachment,-besufliciently withdrawn from between the flanges 45 and I to entirely unobstruct one or both of lits ends preparatory toplacing papers within it. After the jacket has 'been attached the panel flanges 6 and '1 I'partly cover its 'ends and aid in-keepingin place its contents.

flin Figs. +1 and -2 the upper jacket is shown vertically (positioned with its back side abutting against the front face of the panel 5, the lower side of said jacket :resting on the backwa-rdlydirected-arms or short run's MS of the wire. :It will be seen that these runs are snfliciently long to allow the upper :parts 'of the vertical wirelruns 8 and 9 to swing 'far "enough from the ipan'el 1J0 allow room 'for the straplike binding strip '50 when the latter is horizontally positioned in 'an underlying relation to 'said arms "t6.

A tie rod 50 'is "shown having at each rend la curl forming an eyelet, the wire ru'ns 8121:1111 9 passing through said eyelets. -@he o'r more of these tie rods array be advantageously used to segregate certain packs in rgroups While 'they are undergoing revision or reclassification,='asl1or ekample =1'niddle ip'ack "I '2 shown in Figs. '1 and 2.

Thepperation'of 'the device will "for anemic-st part be readily understood 'f'rbm the -ioregoing description, but some "additional clip]anatioh thereof may be necessary to make it cleair new, when 'a fpack of filled .ijackts is moved upwardly aldngthe attaching 'strips Wand 8 th the lii'n'it df its travel on itne slide 'tir'e upperijatket "of such a pack will be caused to swing automatically from a more or less horizontal position to the vertical position which the upper jacket occupies as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

It is to be understood that the backwardly directed arm it at the upper end of each wirerun 8 and 9, when made by a bending machine, will have its inner angle slightly rounded where it joins the main run. Hence when the upper edge portionof the narrow binding strip 40 of the ascending jacket encounters this rounded part it will be backwardly deflected and further upward pressure against the attached part of the jacket whether by the next underlying jacket or directly by the hand of the operator, will advance its said binding strip toward a horizontal position in respect to its width, causing said binding strip to swing the jacket to which it is attached to the upstanding position as shown in the upper portions of Figs. 1 and 2. And it is obvious that when the jacket is swung forwardly and forced downwardly to return it to its original position its binding strip will retrace its course in relation to the wire.

What is claimed is:

1. In a jacket file of the kinddescribed, an upstanding panel, a pair of parallel spaced apart retaining strips mounted upon said panel in an overlying spaced relation to the face thereof, each of said strips having at its upper end a backwardly deflected portion which loosely ex.- tends through a hole in said panel which is spaced considerably below the upper edge of said panel, said backwardly deflected portions being united behind the panel by a cross run, the free ends of said strips being anchored to a lower part'of the panel, a plurality of separate jackets, each of which has a straight edge portion which is slidably attached to said strips to slide along them to and from an adjacent relation to the upper end of said panel, said attached edge portion having a width substantially equal to the offset from the face of the panel of the upper end portion of each of said strips, and means extending through the attached edge portion of each jacket and underlying said strips to automatically backwardly deflect said jacket when it arrives at the upper limit of its travel.

2. In a jacket file of the kind described, an upstanding panel, a pair of parallel spaced apart retaining strips mounted upon said panel in an overlying spaced relation to the face thereof,

each of said strips having at its upper end a backwardly deflected portion which loosely extends through a hole in said panel which is spaced considerably below the upper edge of said panel, said backwardly deflected portions being united behind the panel by a cross run, the free ends of said strips being anchored to a lower part of the panel, a plurality of separate file jackets eachhaving a back edge portion whereby it is swingably and slidably attached to said retaining strips, said jackets each being of a slab-like shape to enable them to be grouped together in theirv mounted position in a superimposed flatwise contacting relation, the aforementioned backwardly deflected runs of said strips forming abutments whereby at the end of the upward travel of an attached pack of said jackets the uppermost jacket is flipped from a horizontal to an upstanding position with its back face abutting against the upper portion of the front face of the supporting panel.

3. In a jacket file of the kind described, an

elongated panel'h'aving throughit two apertures located inan end portion of saidpanel and on a line extending transversely thereof, said apertures being on opposite sides of the midlength of the panel and substantially equidistant from its side edges, a wire consisting of two main runs extending lengthwise of the panel, said runs being continued at their upper ends .as backwardly directed arms which extend, loosely through said apertures, the central portion of the wire uniting the back ends of said arms, said main wire runs being attachedto the lower ,portion of the panel and being swingable outwardly from the panel as far as the lengths of said wire arms will allow, a data-containing jacket of a slab-like shape, and-means carried by an edge portion of said jacket to attach it to said main wire runs in a slidable swingable manner, saidjacket being slidable upwardly along said main wire runs to their upper ends and then backwardly swingable to an upstanding position wherein .it restsupon said arms and its back side abuts against the upper part of the front face of said panel. 7

l. In an indexed file, an upstanding vertical support,a jacket having walls of semi-rigid sheet material disposed in a quadrilateral relation to each other, and means for attaching said jacket to one side edge of said support to be swung through a'vertical plane, the free side edge of said jacket having index matter upon its face, said face lying in a substantially vertical plane at whatever position'the jacket is swung in relation to said upstanding support.

5. In an index flle, an upstanding supporting panel, a pair of parallel, spaced apart longitudinally extending retaining strips carried by said panel in a spaced, overlying relation to one of its faces, -the lower extremity of each of said stripsbeing constructed and arranged to grip the lower edge of said panel, the upper extremity of each of-said strips being backwardly deflected in a short run and extending through an aperture spaced considerably down from the top of said panel, said short runs being in turn laterally deflected to maintain each short run in its aperture, -a plurality of data-containing jackets each slidably fastened to both of said strips, and a tierod bridging the space between said strips and having-its end portions slidably attached to them dividing said 'jacets into groups.

'6. The subject matter of claim 5 and, said laterally deflected portions of said short runs being united to form the midlength portion of the retaining strips considered as a wholeand said tie rod consisting of a wire having end curls whereby it is attached to said strips.

'7. Ina self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file, an upstanding back panel, a pair of parallel spaced apart retaining strips mounted upon said panel in an overlying spaced relation to the face thereof, a plurality ofseparate flle jackets each of quadrangular cross section and each of which vried by each said jacket and co-operating with said retaining strips to deflect bodily the uppermost of said flle jackets when it arrives at its uppermost position on the panel.

8. A jacket file according to claim 7, wherein locking means is provided for detachably connecting teach idle jacket to said retaining strips.

a. A jacket nle according to claim "7, wherein guide flanges are provided along the sides or the panel rcr preventing extrusion of the contents of the ziackct.

:11]. 1A self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file comprising a me jacket support, a plurality of separate jackets for containing removable sheets and cards, and means to :slidably attach said jackets to said support, said means including a plurality of retaining strips upon which said jackets are individually slida'bte, said jackets each comprising elongated sheet of paper iurnished with pairs of apertures, the apertures or each pair being located adjacent to and on opposite sides of 'one or the other of said retaining strips, and a locking strip extending through a pinrallity of said paired apertures when opposite end portions of said sh'eet .O'f paper are folded inwardly so as to be superimposed one upon the other and adhered to retain each file jacket cooperanvely with said retaining strips, said :sh'eet being crea'sed whereby in its fold'ed condition :it forms an enclosure quadrangular in cross section with open ends.

141. In a device of the kind described, an upstanding vertical ,panel, a plurality of record carriers quadrangular in cross section, means to mount said carriers upon 'said panel in a vertically slidable manner, the free :side edge of 'each of :said carrims :lraving index matter upon its face, said means including arms projecting through apertures in'said panel and being laterally deflected in ta spaced relation to the .back side thereof to automatically swing the uppermost carrier lrom an angular relation to said panel to a parallel relation thereto when said carrier is moved to the upper limitof its travel in relation to said ipan'el.

'12. A jacket file according to claim 3, wherein solid data-containing jacket is composed of walls of semi-rigid material disposed in a quadrilateral relation :to each iother thereby forming an enclosure =quadrangular in cross section and each angle forming the quadrangular cross section being -a right angle.

13. Aj'acketfile according to claim 3, wherein said data-containing jacket is composed of walls of semi-rigid materialsdisposed in a quadrilateral relation to 'each other thereby forming an enclosure quadrangular :in cross section with open ends, each angle torming the quadrangular cross section being a right angle and the free side edge -01" said jacket having index matter on its face.

-14. A self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file comprising a file jacket support, -a plurality of open-ended jackets of quadrangular cross section for containing removable sheets and cards, means to-sl-idably attach each -of said jackets to said :file jacket support, each of said jackets having an index line along the free side edge thereof farthest from the attached .side, and means-carried by saidfile jacket support and cooperating with said slidably attaching means whereby the uppermost jacket is bodily deflected when at reaches its topmost position.

as. a .selfdabeling -visibly indexed jacket file comprising a dachet fi l'e support or slide, an open ended jacket of quadrangular 'cross section, means to slidably attach said jacket to said support .or slide, and means extending through the attached edge portion "of said jacket and coopera-ting with said attaching means to automatically backwardly deflect :sa'id ti'a'cket when it arrives at upper limit of its travel.

2H6. A self-labeling visibly indexed jacket the comprising a jacket nle support or slide, an open ended acket of quadrangular cross section slidably mounted upon said support or slide, each angle forming the quadrangular shape being a aing le, there being a crease line along each right angular bend thereof, means to 'sl-idably attach said 'ja'dket to said support -or slide, and means detachable extending through the attached edge portion of said tachet and coopera'ting with said attaching means to automatically baokwardly d'e fleot said 'jacket when it arrives at the upper ililnit of its travel.

1'7. A self-labeling visibly indexed jacket file comprising a jacket file support or slide, an'open ended jacket of quadrangular "cross section slida-b'ly mounted upon said support or :sili'de, each angle forming the quadrangular shape being a rig-mangle, there being a crease line :along each right :angnlaa' b'end there'of, means to slida'bry attach said jacket to said :support or slide, and means idctachably -extending through the attached edge portion of said jacket and lcooperatirrg with :said .atta'ohing means to automatically ba'ckwardly idefl'ect said jacket when it :arrives at the upper limit orf its lt'ravel, Isaid slidable stta'olnngmeans including 'arms extending through apertures in said support 'or slide and being laterally deflected in a spaced relation to the back thereof, .said arms donning abutnrents said detachable means in perr'fiorm'ing the afioresa'id automatic :action.

1B8. -'.'As ran :article .ofimanufa'cture, a file jacket containing a plurality of removable sheets and :cards comprising azsingle vsheet of elongated rectangular material lhaving paired parallel creasing lines adjacent each of its opposite ends and hire middle fold lines spaced equidistantly therefrom, all :of .said dines being utilizable in folding said sheet into an open ended jacket quadrangular in cross section, there being an inner-and an outcr of circular holes :between the first and second of said lines eat each end and of the same diameter as the distance thetween the .lines ,of each pair, thereby providing :a row of tour symmetrically arranged [holes :extending transversely :at (each .end of (the :sheet, the inward spacing 'of the first said paired parallel creasing lines providing lend flaps to overlap adjacent wall portions when the Jacket is :folded in the shape aforesaid thus bringing each pair of .=inner.and icuter holes at each "end into registry ir'especttvely with corresponding holes at the other end, and bindingmrembersextending throughsaid registered holes toreleasably zfasten the ends of .said sheet together to maintain 'said quadrangular shape.

. JOHN T. QUIGLEY. 

